The guillotine is a beheading execution device in which a blade suspended between two pillars is dropped and the head of the executed person, who is placed prone between the pillars, is severed.

断頭台は2本の柱の間に吊るした刃を落とし、柱の間にうつ伏せ状態にさせた被処刑人の首を切断する斬首刑の執行装置である。